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ArticleNature communications2020

Using synchronized oscillators to compute the maximum independent set.

Antik Mallick, Mohammad Khairul Bashar, Daniel S Truesdell, Benton H Calhoun, Siddharth Joshi, Nikhil Shukla

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Antik MallickDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Mohammad Khairul BasharDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Daniel S TruesdellDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5723-0398
Benton H CalhounDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Siddharth JoshiDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9201-9678
Nikhil ShuklaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA. ns6pf@virginia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8899-5190

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Abstract

Not all computing problems are created equal. The inherent complexity of processing certain classes of problems using digital computers has inspired the exploration of alternate computing paradigms. Coupled oscillators exhibiting rich spatio-temporal dynamics have been proposed for solving hard optimization problems. However, the physical implementation of such systems has been constrained to small prototypes. Consequently, the computational properties of this paradigm remain inadequately explored. Here, we demonstrate an integrated circuit of thirty oscillators with highly reconfigurable coupling to compute optimal/near-optimal solutions to the archetypally hard Maximum Independent Set problem with over 90% accuracy. This platform uniquely enables us to characterize the dynamical and computational properties of this hardware approach. We show that the Maximum Independent Set is more challenging to compute in sparser graphs than in denser ones. Finally, using simulations we evaluate the scalability of the proposed approach. Our work marks an important step towards enabling application-specific analog computing platforms to solve computationally hard problems.

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